The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.

Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death’s handmaidens.

I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.

Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.

Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?

He barks out a laugh. "My little rebel.

Mind is everything, there is nothing else as far as your subjective reality is concerned. Everything else outside this subjective reality is irrelevant to biological life.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

So Beckendorf was pretty popular?" Leo asked. "I mean-before he blew up?

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.

We have not the time to take our time.

I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.